Combined cabinet and rack for holding implements, &amp;c.



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COMBINED CABINET AND RACK FOR HOLDING IMPLEMENTS, &o.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 4. 1903.

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No. 765,318. PATLNTLD JULY 19, 1904.

LA. LOW.

COMBINED CABINET AND RACK POR HOLDING IMPLEMEN'IS, 5o.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 4. 190s.

No MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented July 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

COMBINED CABINET AND RACK FOR HOLDING INIPLEIVIENTS, c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 765,318, dated July 19, 1904.

`Application filed March 4, 1903.

T0 all whom, it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, ABBoT AUGUSTUS Low, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Horse-Y shoe, St. Lawrence county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Cabinet and Rack for Holding Implements, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention is applicable for use as a receiver for various tools and implements fas, for instance, pens, pencils, and other articles of desk furniture-similar to the manner set forth in my concurrent application, filed January 28, 1903, Serial No. 140,840, in which the distinguishing feature is the use of elastic resilient tongues, which adapt themselves automatically to variations of size and shape to the instruments to be accommodated.

My present invention is designed to increase the capacity of the device and at the same time simplify and cheapen the construction, the idea being to make it mainly of sheets of metal bent up into the required form and fitting and interlocking with each other.

The invention consists in the special construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and claimed specifically.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved cabinet; Fig. 2, a top View of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical section upon plane of line 3 3, Fig. 1; Fig. t, a top view of the base and frame with the slide removed; Fig. 5, a top view of the slide. Fig. 6 is a rear View of the upper portion of the slide. Fig. 7 is a rear view of a portion of the frame. Fig. 8 is a horizontal section upon plane of line 8 8, Fig. 1.

A represents a. base, of any desired material and shape, to which the frame B is attached in any desired or well-known manner. This frame B consists of a single sheet of metal bent into form longitudinally, the cross-section of the same being shown in Figs. 2 and 4E. Thus its edges are bent into 'rectangular flanges b, which, together with the odsets 7)', form opposed"longitudinalk grooves 52, one on each side of the device.

Other rectangular offsets 3 extend backward from the anges b', the metal being bent and doubled inward at the rear to form the Serial No.146,104. (No model.)

flanges b4, between which and the back plate is formed a groove t at either side of the device, as will be clearly seen by reference to Fig. 4, in which it will be observed that a wide Space 57 is created between the rearwardly-extending offsets 3.

C is the slide, the edges c of which lit in the grooves b2 in the frame B. This slide C consists of a rear plate D, the edges of which are secured to the tenons c' constituting the edges of the frame C. The plate D is made of sufficient length to extend downward to the base, and it is formed with two lateral iianges or extensions d CZ by the doubling of the metal upon itself, as will be understood by reference to Fig. 5. These rearward extensions or flanges CZ when the Slide is placed in the frame B divide the space Finto three compartments E' E3. (Clearly shown in Fig. 2.)

Attached to the rear plate D of the slide C is the grooved front plate F. In the drawings this plate is shown as screwed to the rear plate-D and to the tenons c', or any other means may be resorted to in secu ring the parts together. The plate F is formed with any desired number of grooves f f 2f f 't by bending or upsetting the metal by any suitable means.

Secured to the front of the lower portion of the plate D is a series of stamped metallic tongues T, which act in conjuction with the guard-rail R, which latter is also preferably formed of sheet metal stamped out to create rectangular-shaped compartments o), into which the lower portions of the resilient elastic tongues T protrude, as will be seen more clearly by reference to Figs. 2 and 8. .The front wall of the compartment 0 is .formed with notches 1", preferably of an inverted-V shape, which notches fr' act in conjunction with the grooves z5 in the tongues T to centralize and hold the pointed ends of pens, pencils, or other pointed implements or tools substantially in the manner set forth in my concurrent application hereinbefore referred to.

The compartments E E2 E3 may be used for the reception and accommodation of rulers or anyother 'desired appliance, or for envelops, 85e., as may be found most expedient. The

grooves Z1 f, at the rear of the frame B, may

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he used for the reception ot' calendar-caids or like sheets which itis desired to store, expose, or have aecessiblein connection with the cabinet.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isY

l. In a cabinet of the character designated, a series of elastic resilient tongues formed with centralizing-grooves and a correspondingseries of compartments formed with notches in their front walls coinciding' with the grooves in the tongue, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a cabinet of the character designated, the combination of the base A, the sheetmetal frame B, Jformed with the grooves b2, b2, and the space 717, and the slide C, formed of sheet metal, with the rearward anges, which divide the space L7, into the compartments E, E2, E3, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described. 3. In a cabinet substantially such as designated, the combination of the sheet-metal frame B, the slide C, formed with the bent metal back plate D, and the bent metal front plate F, having the groovesf, f2, f3, together with the series of elastic resilient tongues T, and the bent metal guard R, secured to the lower portion ofthe said plate D, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described. ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW. Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, 'FRANK E. RoAoH. 

